Oct 26, 2017 | Health Care, Medicare and Medicaid
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently published a report entitled “Enhancements Needed in the Tracking and Collection of Medicare Overpayments Identified by ZPICs and PSCs.” Zone Program Integrity Contractors...
Sep 22, 2017 | Health Care, White Collar Crime
On September 19, 2017, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced at a news conference that Attorneys General from 41 states have joined together to investigate major pharmaceutical companies over the production and distribution of opioids. The joint...
Sep 22, 2017 | Health Care
Last month, Centegra Health System, which operates a chain of hospitals and clinics in the Chicago area, reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount with a proposed class of home health clinicians who claimed they were improperly denied overtime payments. The...
Aug 24, 2017 | Health Care
On August 7, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a unanimous 3-0 decision in Jones v. Waffle House, Inc. et al., holding that an arbitration agreement between the parties would be enforced even though the plaintiff signed...
Aug 24, 2017 | Health Care
In response to the nationwide opioid epidemic, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has recently announced the creation of the Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit. The announcement was made on August 2, 2017, by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who explained that for...
Jul 18, 2017 | Health Care
On July 7, 2017, U.S. District Judge David Doty of the District of Minnesota issued an order granting summary in favor of North Memorial Health Care (“NMHC”), in which the court dismissed an Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEOC”) suit alleging that NMHC retaliated...
